Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

The Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Haiti earthquake are only some of the recent examples of the power of new media to transform journalism. Some celebrate this power as a new cosmopolitanism that challenges the traditional boundaries of foreign reporting, yet others fear that the new media simply reproduce old power relations in new ways. It is this important controversy around the role of new media in shaping a cosmopolitan journalism that offers the starting point of this book.

By bringing together an impressive range of leading theorists in the field of...

Diese Einfuhrung zum Medium 'Flugschrift' ist zweigeteilt in einen systematischen und in einen historischen Teil. Der erste Teil enthalt eine Definition von 'Flugschrift' durch die Abgrenzung gegenuber anderen Medien (Flugblatt, Neue Zeitung, Zeitung, Zeitschrift). Es folgen Informationen uber die auere Gestalt (Format, Umfang, Titel, Text und Bild) und zu den allgemeinen Bedingungen der Produktion (Autoren, Anonymitat, Kontroversen, Drucker), der Distribution (z.B. die Rolle der Drucker), der Rezeption (im Rahmen anderer Medien) und den typischen sprachlichen und formalen Eigenschaften...

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.

Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the...

Over the past few decades, relationships between social workers and the media have become increasingly challenging. Social workers feel aggrieved by media reporting of their profession and believe that journalists lack sufficient knowledge and experience of the social services to report matters adequately and sensitively, whilst some journalists have urged social workers to adopt a more proactive public relations strategy. This book, first published in 1991, analyses the causes and consequences of the negative portrayal of social work within the media and considers various ways in which...

A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and Syracuse. The impossible account of how Eric Carle, one of the world s great children s authors, found his way to a childhood friend through a photograph taken in Syracuse more than eighty years ago.

All these tales can be found in The Soul of Central New York, a collection of...